Janada Marcus with Pope Francis at the general audience on March 8, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 8, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis met Wednesday with two young Nigerian girls who suffered horrendous violence at the hands of the Boko Haram terrorist group.Sixteen-year-old Maryamu Joseph, who escaped from the Boko Haram in July after being held against her will for nine years, greeted the pope with Janada Marcus, also a victim of Boko Haram kidnapping, at the end of his general audience on March 8.Both girls saw members of their families murdered by the Boko Haram. Marcus' father was beheaded by a machete in front of her in 2018. Joseph saw her brother killed and cut into pieces in 2019."Right before my eyes, they took one of my siblings and killed him. They cut off his head, then his hands, legs, and stomach," she said in a report published by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).The pontifical charity arranged for the girls to meet the pope on International Wo...
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